The May And Energy 2024 outcomes noticed a mighty upset at Caulfield on Guineas Day with the Anthony & Sam Freedman-trained mare Deny Information defying her worth to assert the Group 1 on solution to the Caulfield Cup.
2024 May And Energy winner Deny Information may back-up within the $5 million Caulfield Cup subject. Photograph: Final Racing Images.
The $1 million weight-for-age occasion kicked off the elite stage racing in Melbourne on Saturday and noticed Pleasure Of Dubai seven-year-old Deny Information deny the odds-on elect Mr Brightside victory with the Chris Waller-trained Atishu making up floor to run third.
The bonny mare was given a masterful experience by Mark Zahra to steer from barrier to field, surging to an early lead and staying in entrance all the 2000m journey.
It was a daring and assured Zahra experience aboard a category runner who had three-quarters of a size on the road to spare over Workforce Hayes’ runner-up Mr Brightside.
The overwhelmed favorite was stalking in second on the straight however ran out of time, shedding few admirers on solution to the Group 1 $5 million Ladbrokes Cox Plate (2040m) at The Valley on October 26.
For Deny Information, current winner of the Grafton Cup, a step up in journey however notable drop in weight is probably going with a fast back-up into the Group 1 $5 million Caulfield Cup (2400m) again on the monitor subsequent weekend.
“I feel she’s classier than most likely folks give her credit score,” declared co-trainer Sam Freedman after the victory.
The crew are actually hoping a drop again to 50.5kg in subsequent weekend’s basic, the opening leg of the Spring Cups’ double, can be sufficient to see Deny Information turn out to be the primary horse since 1990 to do the Caulfield Stakes (now May And Energy) – Caulfield Cup double in the identical yr.
Deny Information confirmed loads of prowess in her all-the-way efficiency enhancing on a lead-up fifth to Buckaroo within the Group 1 Underwood Stakes (1800m).
“Her run within the Underwood was superb, she took off early and was nonetheless there combating it out in direction of the end,” Freedman mentioned.
“And look, we might again up subsequent week if she pulls up nicely, perhaps the frontrunner within the Caulfield Cup, yeah, why not?”
Following her May And Energy victory, Deny Information is at $21 within the pre-field Caulfield Cup odds at Ladbrokes.
Freedman additionally talked about a possible tilt on the world’s richest handicap, the Group 1 $8.56 million Lexus Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington on November 5 for which the mare pays $34 to win.
2024 May And Energy Outcomes
| End | No. | Horse | Coach | Jockey | Margin | Bar. | Weight | Penalty | Beginning Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | DENY KNOWLEDGE (IRE) | Anthony & Sam Freedman | Mark Zahra | 6 | 57kg | $8.50 | ||
| 2 | 1 | MR BRIGHTSIDE (NZ) | Ben, Will & JD Hayes | Craig Williams | 0.75L | 1 | 59kg | $1.75F | |
| 3 | 5 | ATISHU (NZ) | Chris Waller | James McDonald | 1.5L | 8 | 57kg | $4 | |
| 4 | 4 | ADELAIDE RIVER (IRE) | Kris Lees | Ben Melham | 4.5L | 3 | 59kg | $21 | |
| 5 | 8 | COCO SUN | Tony & Calvin McEvoy | Blake Shinn | 6.25L | 2 | 56kg | $12 | |
| 6 | 3 | KALAPOUR (IRE) | Kris Lees | Damian Lane | 9L | 4 | 59kg | $41 | |
| 7 | 2 | VOW AND DECLARE | Danny O’Brien | Billy Egan | 19L | 5 | 59kg | $21 | |
| 8 | 7 | JENNILALA | Ciaron Maher | Declan Bates | 44L | 7 | 57kg | $41 |
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